Under cloudy skies and with temperatures around 20 degrees the second round of the Supermoto European Championship burst into life in a similar fashion to how the opening race of the season finished three weeks ago, with Marc Reiner Schmidt setting the pace.
The S2 European Championship points leader, Marc Reiner Schmidt wasted no time in picking up where he left off by setting the fastest times in both of the free practice sessions today ahead of the official Timed Practice session, edging out Toni Klem and Mattia Martella in Free Practice 1 and Giovanni Bussei and Martella in Free Practice 2, once again showing that he will be the rider to beat at this second round.
And when it came down to business the German TM rider’s time of 1:31.465 was almost two and a half seconds quicker than his nearest rival Yuri Guardala’ with Giovanni Bussei three tenths further back to complete the front row. The Swiss rider Kevin Tschumperlin surprised a few of the S2 regulars as he guided his Yamaha to a very impressive fourth place to head up the second row with Fabrizio Bartolini and Petr Vorlicek taking fifth and sixth respectively.
S2 Qualifying top ten: Schmidt Marc-Reiner (GER-TM) +01:31.465; 2. Guardalà Yuri (ITA-HONDA) +01:33.898; 3. Bussei Giovanni (ITA-TM) +01:34.213; 4.Tschumperlin Kevin ( SUI-YAMAHA) +01:34.263; 5. Bartolini Fabrizio (ITA-HONDA) +1:34.397; 6. Vorlicek Petr (CZE-SUZUKI) +01:34.404; 7. Klem Toni (FIN-TM) +01:34.588; 8. Gimenez David +01:34.777 (ESP-SUZUKI) 9. Martella Mattia (ITA-TM)+01:34.931;10. Promutico Lorenzo (ITA-HONDA) +01:35.399
